Where Do You Start
| Where Do You Start | ||||
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| Studio album by Brad Mehldau Trio | ||||
| Released | September 17, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | November 17, 2008 and April 19, 2011 | |||
| Studio | Avatar (New York City) | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 78:22 | |||
| Label | Nonesuch 7559-79610 5 | |||
| Producer | Brad Mehldau | |||
| Brad Mehldau chronology | ||||
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Where Do You Start is an album by the Brad Mehldau Trio released on the Nonesuch label in 2012.[1][2]
Reception
[edit]| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 80/100[3] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| All About Jazz |   [4] |
| AllMusic |  [1] |
| Financial Times | [5] |
| The Guardian | [6] |
| Jazz Forum | [7] |
| Jazzwise | [8] |
| Mojo | [3] |
| musicOMH | [9] |
| Tom Hull | A−[10] |
| Q | [3] |
The album received generally favourable reviews with Metacritic giving it a score of 80% from 7 reviews.[11] AllMusic awarded the album 3½ stars and in its review by Matt Collar, states "Ultimately, Where Do You Start is an intimate, impressionistic, and probing release that should certainly appeal to longtime fans of Mehldau's nuanced jazz style".[1] The Guardian's John Fordham observed "the dynamics and empathy of this ensemble remain pretty irresistible".[6] On All About Jazz, John Kelman noted "Where Do You Start isn't so much an alternative as it is further evidence—as if any were needed—of this tremendous trio's ability to take any material—old, new, borrowed or original—and make it firmly its own".[4]
BBC Music reviewer, Martin Longley commented "Where Do You Start revives the old Mehldau approach of covering songs from across the decades... Yet Mehldau’s method is so dominant that everything gravitates towards the trio’s signature sound, lending cohesion to a variegated crop... It all points to Mehldau entering a new prime phase in his career, both onstage and in the recording studio".[12] Phil Johnson of The Independent added, "There's not a duff track or dull moment in this 75 minutes of studio material..."[13]
Track listing
[edit]- "Got Me Wrong" (Jerry Cantrell) - 5:24
- "Holland" (Sufjan Stevens) - 8:46
- "Brownie Speaks" (Clifford Brown) - 8:13
- "Baby Plays Around" (Cait O'Riordan, Elvis Costello) - 10:07
- "Airegin" (Sonny Rollins) - 6:23
- "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) - 6:24
- "Samba e Amor" (Chico Buarque) - 9:02
- "Jam" (Brad Mehldau) - 5:26
- "Time Has Told Me" (Nick Drake) - 8:30
- "Aquelas Coisas Todas" (Toninho Horta) - 6:01
- "Where Do You Start?" (Marilyn Bergman, Alan Bergman, Johnny Mandel) - 4:06
Personnel
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Collar, Matt. "Brad Mehldau Trio Where Do You Start - Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2014-02-05.
- ^ "Discography of Brad Mehldau". Retrieved 2014-02-05.
- ^ a b c "Where Do You Start by Brad Mehldau Trio". Metacritic. metacritic.com. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ^ a b Kelman, John (September 11, 2012). "Brad Mehldau Trio: Where Do You Start album review @ All About Jazz". All About Jazz. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
- ^ Hobart, Mike (15 September 2015). "Brad Mehldau: Where Do You Start". Financial Times. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ a b Fordham, G., Brad Mehldau Trio: Where Do You Start Review, The Guardian, September 19, 2012
- ^ Kałużny, Piotr. "Where Do You Start | Jazz Forum". Jazz Forum. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ Graham, Stephen (October 2012). "Review Search". Jazzwise. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
- ^ Paton, Daniel (17 September 2012). "Brad Mehldau Trio – Where Do You Start". musicOMH. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- ^ "Tom Hull: Grade List: Brad Mehldau". Tom Hull. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- ^ Metacritic summary, accessed February 5, 2014
- ^ Longley, M., Brad Mehldau Trio Where Do You Start Review, BBC Music, accessed February 5, 2014
- ^ Johnson, Phil (16 September 2012). "Album: Brad Mehldau Trio, Where Do You Start (Nonesuch)". The Independent. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
